Well, these are the interviews! I wanted to get this up tonight so I can post the first arena chapter tomorrow! :) Review!
I do not own the hunger games!
We are all gathered around the television waiting for the scores to appear. The capitol seal flashes on the screen, then a picture of each tribute and their score:
D1 MALE: 11
(We all clap and congratulate Ky on his 11, while I mentally prepare myself for my low score)
D1 FEMALE: 10
(Wait, what? A 10? I got a 10! "Way to go Gemma! I thought you said you'd get a 4?" Ky asks me, I just shrug. "What did you even do to get that?" Esmeralda asks. I ignore her.)
D2 MALE: 10
D2 FEMALE: 9
D3 MALE: 2
D3 FEMALE: 4
D4 MALE: 9
D4 FEMALE: 8
"Yay! Way to go Annabelle!" I shout out. The others just stare at me.
D5 MALE: 6
D5 FEMALE: 10
"That's our other Career! Her name is Tricia, she's hot!" Ky informs us all, I roll my eyes and Mitchell gives him a high five.
D6 MALE: 9
D6 FEMALE: 5
D7 MALE: 6
D7 FEMALE: 7
D8 MALE: 2
D8 FEMALE: 6
"At least Marigold got a 6." I say.
D9 MALE: 5
D9 FEMALE: 3
D10 MALE: 7
D10 FEMALE: 4
D11 MALE: 5
D11 FEMALE: 3
"Oh, that's the poor 12 year old…" I sigh.
D12 MALE: 9
D12 FEMALE: 6
Mitchell starts to talk to us. "Well, tomorrow night is your interviews… and then the next day you go into the arena. Tomorrow during the day we will each help you prepare for your interview, you know like your angle, and Penelope will help you with your stage presentation," He mocks Penelope's accent, "because that is the most important thing here in the capitol!"
Penelope huffs and marches out of the room, the four of us laugh. "Alright then, the two of you. Off to bed. We have a big day tomorrow." Esmeralda commands. I don't know why some people don't like careers, I mean yeah some of them are bloodthirsty murderers in training, but Esmeralda is one of the nicest people I know. She's like a mother.
Me and Ky leave them, and we walk up to our rooms in silence until he speaks, "Um… I just want to say sorry about this morning. You know, my group kind of cornered you. They're never like that; I don't know what came over them."
I smile and fool around with my ruby necklace, "It's fine, really. Good night Ky." Then I enter my room and go to sleep.
Today was the biggest waste of time I ever experienced. Me and Esmeralda had 4 hours, it took us about 10 minutes to decide what my angle was going to be. I was just going to be myself; not that hard.
Then I had my four hours with Penelope, and they were spent with her just pissing me off. She found something wrong in every little thing I did, I told her to screw off half way through, she said if I wanted to act like an animal to go ahead, I said I gladly will, and she left.
The prep team just finish up with me, and now I'm just waiting on Violet to come in and give me my dress. She enters the room, and opens the bag. What do you know? It's purple! But it's actually very lovely… It's purple, and the straps are made of see through light purple ribbon. It's tight up top, but then there's some more of the ribbon going across it, right under my chest, and it flows underneath that. On the Flowy part there are little Jewels all over it, and it's gorgeous.
She gives me a necklace that matches the Jewels on the bottom, and some white flats that are covered in the Jewels too. Once it's on me, I look in the mirror, and I look beautiful. My skin looks like it's glowing, and they have my hair straightened, with little braids going through it, along with some more Jewels.
I gasp at myself, and Violet tells me I'm perfect and that she'll see me afterwards. I walk out of the room, thinking Ky would be there, but he's nowhere to be seen. I just shrug and continue walking down the hall to meet the rest of the tributes.
That's where Ky is, chatting with his "group". I roll my eyes and stand alone to wait for it to begin. A bell goes off and we're ushered onto the stage into a group of chairs. Caesar Flickerman is in the front, watching us all. I wish I wasn't from District 1. I don't want to go first.
"Welcome Panem! I'm Caesar Flickerman and tonight I'll be interviewing the tributes of the 67th Hunger Games! First up is Gemma Stone from District 1!"
I stand up and walk over to Caesar. The crowd is going crazy cheering for me, so I smile and wave at them. I sit down. "Hello Caesar!"
"Why Hello Gemma! You look lovely tonight! How do you like the Capitol? I hope it's been treating you well?"
"Oh yes! The capitol is amazing! The only way it would be better is if Trixie was here!" Shit. I shouldn't of mentioned Trixie, now he's going to ask me questions about her.
"Oh yes! Your daughter, Trixie is it? How old is she now?"
"She was one on reaping day, Caesar." I say with a smile.
"Ah, I see! I'm sure everyone here in the Capitol was shocked to find out that such a tiny girl like you has a child." He turns to the audience, "Am I right?"
The audience screams and I laugh and mess with a piece of my hair.
He can tell I don't want to talk about her. "Okay, well! Let's move on! A 10 in training! Wow! How did you manage that?"
I giggle, "That's a secret!"
"Oh come on Gemma! Pleaaase?"
"Nope, you'll just have to wait to see during the games! I have a feeling this years is going to be very interesting!"
"Hm, is that so?"
"Why yes, it is!"
He laughs, "Well, if you insist we wait, tell us a little bit about yourself instead!"
"What do you want to know?" I raise an eyebrow.
"I'm sure we're all dying to know, do you have a special someone in your life? Trixie's father perhaps?"
I bite my lip, "Trixie's father isn't around anymore, he left me. But yes, if you must know, I do have a special someone in my life right now. He's very close to me so I won't tell you who."
The whole audience goes 'Awh!' "Well, Gemma, I'm sorry about Trixie's father, but I'm glad you have found someone knew! He must be a very lucky man to have you!"
I blush. "Thanks Caesar!"
The bell goes off signalling I'm done, I say good bye to the audience and Caesar and walk back to my seat. I pass Ky on the way, he winks at me and I role my eyes.
Ky was going for the 'tough' look. Only giving one word answers, bragging about how he's going to win, etc. The rest of the interview kind of goes by in a blur, most of them are boring. The twelve year old from 11 looked pretty shaken though, and I felt bad for her.
Finally it's over and we walk back stage where we meet everyone. "That's was great!" "You were wonderful!" "The crowd loved you!" I hear all at once. I just nod and smile, pretending like I care.
Esmeralda walks me up to my room afterwards, giving me a hug at the door. "This is the last time I'll get to see you… Good luck in there, I'll try my hardest to bring you back out."
I smile at her when I see she's tearing up. "Thank you, Esmeralda. You've been so kind to me and I've done nothing but cause trouble."
She gives me one of the saddest smiles I've ever seen. "Hey, it's fine. I treated you like I would treat my own daughter. You be careful alright? I don't want this to be the last time we talk."
"It won't be. Trust me." Then without another word she leaves me in the doorway, walking down the hall.
I turn around and walk in my room, taking off my beautiful dress and putting on some pajamas. I go to the washroom then clean off the makeup, and grab the photo sitting on the desk. Shit! I forgot to give Esmeralda the letters! Oh well, it's not the end of the world. I'll just have to give them to Violet or something.
I lie down in bed, kiss the photo or Trixie & Carter, slide it under my pillow and close my eyes, waiting for sleep that doesn't come.
